Joe R. Lansdale

Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers / Bubba Ho-Tep

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Produktbeschreibung

BUBBA AND THE COSMIC BLOOD-SUCKERS / BUBBA HO-TEP Now available in paperback for the first time -- BUBBA AND THE COSMIC BLOOD-SUCKERS by Joe R. Lansdale! Also includes the award-winning BUBBA HO-TEP novella, inspiration behind the Don Coscarelli film starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis, in the same paperback book! BUBBA AND THE COSMIC BLOOD-SUCKERS Years before facing the cowboy hat-wearing mummy Bubba Ho-Tep in an East Texas retirement home, Elvis finds himself battling interdimensional body-desiccating beings at the behest of his manager, Colonel Parker. Joining him on this journey is clairvoyant Blind Man, master-planner Jack, hammer-swinging John Henry, bodyguard Johnny Smack, and trainee Jenny Jo Dallas. Down in New Orleans awaits the Big Mama, who would like nothing more than to drain the "Jacked-Up Mojo" from the group. BUBBA HO-TEP In this 1994 story that inspired the cult-classic Don Coscarelli film, Elvis is spending his golden years at the Mud Creek Shady Grove Convalescence Home alongside a man claiming to be President John F. Kennedy. Strange sights and sounds leads the two to discover an ancient Egyptian mummy stalking the corridors of their retirement home. They soon face off against the monster...but will anyone believe their story or shrug it off as more tall tales? TCB. JOE R. LANSDALE The author of fifty novels and more than three hundred short stories, his work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in at least thirty short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies. Lansdale has received the Edgar Award, eleven Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others. © 2019 BookVoice Publishing www.bookvoicepublishing.com

Produktdetails

• Verlag: BookVoice Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9781949381092
• ISBN-10: 1949381099
• Artikelnr.: 55977506

Autorenporträt

Joe R. Lansdale is the author of fifty novels and four hundred shorter works, including stories, essays, reviews, film and TV scripts, introductions and magazine articles, and a book of poetry. His work has been made into the films Bubba Hotep and Cold in July, as well as the acclaimed Sundance TV show Hap and Leonard. He has received numerous recognitions for his work. Among them the Edgar, for his crime novel The Bottoms, the Spur, for his historical western Paradise Sky, as well as ten Bram Stokers for his horror works. He has also received the Grandmaster Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association. He has been recognized for his contributions to comics with the Inkpot Life Achievement Award, and has received the British Fantasy Award, and has had two New York Times Notable Books. He has been honored with the Italian Grinzane Cavour Prize, the Sugar Pulp Prize for Fiction, and the Raymond Chandler Lifetime Achievement Award. The Edge of Dark Water was listed by Booklist as an Editor's Choice, and the American Library Association chose The Thicket, for Adult Books for Young Adults. Library Journal voted The Thicket, as one of the Best Historical Novels of the Year. He has also received an American Mystery Award, the Horror Critics Award, and the Shot in the Dark International Crime Writer's Award, and was recognized for his contributions to the legacy of Edgar Rice Burroughs with the Golden Lion Award. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Literature and has been inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame and is Writer in Residence at Stephen F. Austin State University. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas, with his wife, Karen.